Julio, Julio Rojas wrote: > Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies.
Sorry, I thought I had. I'm very new to all this and have lots to learn. Maybe I've done it better this time. > > First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX > says on the hyphenation patterns being used. That told me I'm only using English. So I loaded the package you suggested, and IT WORKS! Thanks a load! Richard On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 16:26 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote: > Dear Richard, remember to always include the list on your replies. > > I thought you were on Windows as you spoke of MikTeX. But no problem. > First of all, generate the PDF of your document and check what LaTeX > says on the hyphenation patterns being used. You can check that in LyX > in "Document->Latex Log". There you will see a message at the > beggining saying: > > Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english... > > Those are the languages being used by Babel. If you found "Italian", > then LaTeX is using Italian and I don't know what the problem is. If > you cannot find it, the it means you have to install th package > "texlive-lang-italian", which loads the Italian hyphenation pattern. > > I hope this helps. > ------------------------------------------------- > Julio Rojas > [email protected] > > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Richard Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Looking at www.MikTeX.org it seems miktex- which I don't have on my > > system as far as I can tell- is a windows programme. I'm on ubuntu > > linux- does that mean I should do something different? > > > > I forgot to say in my OP that the document language settings are set > > (via document -> settings) to italian. But the hyphenation is still > > wrong. > > > > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:13 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote: > >> It should be straightforward by changing the language of the document. > >> If not, see the configuration of miktex, as it might not be loading > >> the italian hyphenation for babel. > >> ------------------------------------------------- > >> Julio Rojas > >> [email protected] > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Brown <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Can someone give me an idiot-proof guide to changing hyphenation to > >> > Italian? I'm very new to Lyx but have to get the manuscript out to my > >> > publishers quickly. > >> > > >> > I'm having problems because the hyphenation is just wrong for Italian. > >> > I've searched this list and found a number of old posts - some going > >> > back ten years or more - which say I need to change various config > >> > files, working under the bonnet with miktex and other things of which as > >> > yet I know nothing, but those files are not where the posts say they > >> > should be and when I open the (newer?) versions of those files that I > >> > have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly > >> > warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I > >> > have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in > >> > advance. > >> > > >> > I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04 > >> > > >> > Richard > >> > > >> > > >> > Richard Brown > >> > ...................................................... > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > Richard Brown > > ...................................................... > > > > > > > > Richard Brown ......................................................
